Tiger in the Barbed Wire An American in Vietnam, 1952-1991

Name: Tiger in the Barbed Wire An American in Vietnam, 1952-1991
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ISBN: 9780028810089

ISBN-10: 0028810082

ISBN-13: 9780028810089

Edition: 1992

Authors: Howard R. Simpson, Pierre Salinger

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"Tiger in the Barbed Wire is a fast-paced, colorful memoir by one of the few Americans to live in Vietnam during both the French and American wars. In the 1950s, Foreign Service officer Howard R. Simpson patrolled with French paratroopers at Dien Bien Phu, reported on Hanoi's fall to the Vietminh, was a press advisor to ill-fated Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, and was nearly machine-gunned in street fighting during the bloody Revolt of the Sects. In the 1960s, at a time when coups were the order of the day, he was a press advisor to Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh. When he returned to Vietnam recently to observe the shooting of a movie about Dien Bien Phu--a film that will include some of his own…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English